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Story: Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity. (IMDb) Sound: The music adds to the tension of the film. Without the music the film would be less scary.

Acting: The acting was pretty well done, except for Juliet Rylance. She had her moments, but her overall performance felt forced. The star (Ethan Hawke) was spectacular. He was very believable. I enjoyed his performance because it added to the film's atmosphere.

Film itself: The film was great and it was also disturbing. The story was intriguing and the way the story unfolds was fantastic. The atmosphere was intense and scary. The movie provided many scares. Even when I expected to be startled, I was still startled. One complaint I have is the trailers. The deity was shown way too much in the trailers, which took away some of the fear from said deity. My only real big complaint is the ending. While it was very disturbing (and I do mean very disturbing), I found it a bit weak. Nonetheless the film was great fun.

Overall: I highly recommend this film for Halloween. While it didn't give me any trouble sleeping (like Insidious did), it holds well against other horror films.

Story: After being framed for the murder of the Empress and the disappearance of Emily, you and and group of loyalist set out after the people who framed you.

Sound: Music fits perfectly. Enemies make sounds when being knocked unconscious or when being killed. Great sound.

Graphics: Adds a unique feel to the game. Some textures are lacking. Water effects look great.

Gameplay: You can kill people with either a sword, a gun, or a crossbow. You also can purchase grenades and upgrades. You can collect runes to get or improve your powers. You can summon rats to eat people, or slow down time. There are several creative ways you can kill people. You can freeze time when someone fires a bullet at you, you can possess that person and move them in front of their own bullet. Only downside about doing this is both possession and freeze time need to be level 2. Some blood splashes on your screen when killing somebody. You can either go balls out and kill everybody, or you can play the game without killing a single soul. There are also some mini missions inside the major mission.

Length: Varies. You can rush through, or take your time and explore every nook and cranny.

Replay value: Moderate. You can either play a whole game killing everybody, or you can play a whole game without killing anybody.

Overall: A very fun game with a good story and moderate replay value. Worth buying.

The Dark Knight Rises rating score on my new scale of horrible to amazing: Horrible Meh Good {Very good} Amazing

The conclusion to Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy is very good. The Dark Knight Rises is more action packed than the Dark Knight. The acting was amazing, the fights between Bane and Batman were also amazing, but the meh ending and the meh pacing keeps this film from being amazing.

The acting was amazing, but I felt Anne Hathaway was lacking. She was alright, but she couldn't match up to all of the amazing acting done by Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tom Hardy. Speaking of Tom Hardy, he was the highlight of the entire movie. He made Bane such a bad-ass, but even though he was bad-ass he had this intelligence that Hardy incorporated into the character. Tom Hardy deserves an Oscar for this role! Another actor worth mentioning is Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He really played his character well, he was believable and brought life to a character that use to be written only on the script to the Dark Knight Rises.

The action in this film was really good. When Bane and Batman fight, it is spectacular even though they don't move much. My only complaint was the final fight scene, it was a bit of a let down for being the last fight scene, but nonetheless it was good.

The pacing was also jumbled everywhere, some scenes the pacing was fast in others it was slow. Christopher Nolan may have mastered directing and writing, but he still needs to master the pacing of a movie over 2 hours long.

Along with the final fight scene, the ending was a bit of a letdown. There was one part of the ending that was cool, but the other part was easily forgotten, to tell you more will cause me to spoil the movie and I don't want to do that.

The one thing that stands out in the movie was the very first scene, that scene was by far the best in the whole trilogy. All-in-all the Dark Knight Rises lacked good pacing and a good final ending, but the acting and action makes up for the things lacking. The Dark Knight Rises is a good end to the trilogy. 9/10